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Husnu Akin Babayigit (born 1981) is a London-based serial entrepreneur, active angel investor, and SPAC sponsor who currently serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director of Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DSACU), a Cayman Islands-exempted blank-check company he has led alongside Co-CEO Orkun Kilic since September 2025. The SPAC priced its upsized IPO at $250 million on December 9, 2025, with units trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "DSACU," BTIG serving as sole book-running manager, and a 24-month transaction window. Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp.'s primary investment focus is building a diversified portfolio of profitable AI-powered consumer apps. Babayigit and Kilic are also co-managers of the SPAC's sponsor, Daedalus Special Acquisition LLC, which disclosed a 41.4% beneficial ownership stake (9,060,000 shares of Class A and convertible Class B ordinary shares) through a Schedule 13G filing in December 2025, establishing significant sponsor alignment.
Prior to launching the SPAC, Babayigit built a prominent career in mobile gaming and technology entrepreneurship. He is best known as co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a London-based mobile gaming company that grew into a $1.4 billion valuation startup. He served in leadership roles at Tripledot, including as Founder and COO and later as Board Member, Co-Founder, and President, though his formal directorship at Tripledot Studios Limited was terminated on April 12, 2022, per UK Companies House filings. Before founding Tripledot, Babayigit worked at King (King.com), the mobile gaming company behind Candy Crush, where he held the position of Head of Business Operations & Special Projects. He subsequently became Managing Director of Arcadia Gaming Partners (also referred to as Arcadia Interactive Partners), an investment vehicle focused on the gaming sector. In March 2025, he launched a $100 million mobile gaming fund through Arcadia, further cementing his position as a leading investor in the gaming ecosystem.
Babayigit's educational background includes attendance at Harvard Business School. He is based at 50 Sloane Avenue, London, SW3 3DD, United Kingdom, and maintains active involvement across multiple ventures simultaneously, serving as Managing Director at Arcadia while holding his co-founder and board roles at Tripledot Studios and leading Daedalus Special Acquisition Corp. His track record spans founding and scaling a billion-dollar gaming studio, managing gaming-focused investment funds, and now deploying capital through the public markets via a SPAC vehicle. The Daedalus SPAC represents his first public-market blank-check vehicle, leveraging his deep expertise in consumer technology and gaming to pursue acquisitions in the AI-powered consumer applications space.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002099045 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 5 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 4 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.